Folding bedstead



UNITED STATES il WILLIAM C. LUTZ, OF JAC-OBS CHURCH, VIRGINIA.

FOLDING BEDSTEAD.

Speccation of Letters Patent No. 27,299, dated February 28, 1860.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WM. C. LUTZ, of Jacobs Church, in the county of Shenandoah and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Folding Bedsteads; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure l, is a perspective view of a folding bedstead constructed after my invention. Fig. 2, is a horizontal section of the same, and Fig. 3, a transverse section of the same.

Similar letters of reference, in each of the severa-l ligures indicate corresponding parts.

My invention consists in the peculiar con struction and arrangement ofv the several parts of the bedstead, whereby durability and simplicity are secured and the bedstead at the same time rendered capable of being folded so as to occupy but a small space when not in use or be readily passed through small openings or doors, whenever it becomes necessary to move it from one place to another.

To enable others, skilled in the art, to make and use my bedstead, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A, A, represent the side rails, B, B, the end rails, C, C, the head and toot boards, D, D, D, D, the posts and E, E, E, E, the legs of a bedstead.`

The side rail A, is provided with a rectangular open mortise a, at its foot end and with a partly rectangular and partly triangular shaped open mort-ise b, 22, at its head end, and the side rail A@ is furnished with similar open mortises c, (l, (Z, which are set just in the reverse order ot the mortises (L, t), b, as represented in Figs. l and 3, of the drawing.

The foot and head rails are provided with rectangular tenons e, f, at one of their respective ends and with tenons 7L, z', which are partly rectangular and partly triangular at their other respective ends, as represented in the drawings.

The rectangular tenons are made considerably longer than the width of the side rails and the rectangular mortises are likewise made longer than the width of the foot and head rails, as shown in the drawing. The elongation of the rectangular mortises is necessary in order to allow of wedges g, g, being introduced as shown so as to prevent a folding of the bedstead when it is in use, and the elongation of the rectangular tenons with the extension of the partly rectangular and partly triangular mortises and tenons is to allow of the bedstead being folded, when the wedges are withdrawn, from the condition shown in black lines to the condition shown in red lines in Fig. 2.

The posts D, legs E, and side and end rails are connected together by means of the screw dowels (Z2, (Z2, (Z2, (Z2, provided on the upper ends of the legs, said screw dowels passing up through plain round holes in the mortised and tenoned ends of the rails, and into screw tapped sockets cut in the lower ends of the posts in the manner represented.

It should be observed here that the portion g of the screw dowels should be plain in order that the rails may turn freely on the same when it is desired to fold the bedstead: thus making this portion plain does not interfere with the effective action of the screw dowels, for by turning the legs until their top ends jam against the underside of the rails, the posts legs, and end and side rails will be lirnily clamped together and then by inserting the wedge keys, the posts will be kept from moving.

To fold up the bedstead, all that has to be done is to withdraw t-he wedge keys and then force the side rails together until the angular portions of the tenons fit into the triangular portions of the mortices, as represented in red in Fig. 2.

INhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'Ihe arrangement of the peculiarly mortised and tenoned side and end rails, screw doweled legs screw tapped posts and wedge keys, in the manner and for the purpose herein described.

IVILLIAM C. LUTZ.

lVitnesses:

JACOB LANTZ, E. H. BERRY. 

